The plot is great and it kept me wanting more for the entire novel. As an added gem, Kirk's round up of his crew was actually written to be at the beginning of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but budget limitations prevented it from being filmed. Flinn used the script written for those scenes and transformed it into prose for this novel. Well done!
Nothing To Be Afraid Of:
I'm completely stunned by the generally awful reviews The Fearful Summons has received. One reviewer has even compared The Fearful Summons to the dreaded Triangle - there can be no greater insult to a Trek writer! In reality, Flinn has brought us an extremely delightful Trek book - think the flavor of Next Gen's "All Good Things. . . " but with the original crew. Kirk in particular is well-developed here, true to the way we see him in Star Trek VI without being a caricature.
As a loyal reader of TOS novels,I have to agree with the rest of the reviewers: this book ranks down there with Triangle and Ghost-Walker for worst TOS novels I have read in the Pocket Books line. The main beef I have with the author is that the dialogue and developement for the Enterprise crew is so out of charater and so unbelieveable, I had to end my reading of the book half way thru. You are better off spending your money on the Shatner books, at least the Reeves-Stevens' know how to write Trek!
Terrible:
The plot is boring and awful. It doesn't show much depth and chemistry between characters.
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